During my 25 years of smoking I tried to quit many, many times, you could say I got into a habit of quitting. I would find the ‘will power’ to stop and in my heart of hearts I really did want to quit. I now realize that It wasn’t the conscious mind that I had to convince… It was my unconscious that needed to grasp the idea that I or...
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Underneath the Holding Area of the habit code comes the negative habits. These habits take energy from the holding area and your Body Mind and Soul energy are reduced. Smoking is a good example (or should I say bad example) of one these habits because as you smoke it not only effects the body but it also deadens the mind and effects the soul. So, your good...
Read More20 Tricks To Nuke A Bad Habit
I was searching around the blogosphere and up came this great blog by Leo Babauta His story begins where mine did, when he quit smoking. And the leverage he has got off that habit change is amazing. He has a guest post on the site from Scott Young that deals with eliminating habits. It’s a great post and you can read it...
Read MoreBasal Ganglia and Habit Formation
I remember posting about the Basal Ganglia before in this post: http://www.thehabitcode.com/2006/09/22/its-all-in-the-basal-ganglia/ In fact it was my second post… Well after my other post today about the Insular Cortex I found another posting about the Basal Ganglia. What intrigues me about this post is the effect of Parkinsons Disease and the fact...
Read MoreLinking Habit and Addiction to The Insula
Smokers Quit After Damage to Brain Region “Nicotine Addiction Depends on a Healthy Insula” Say Researchers From the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California (USC). Smokers with a damaged Insula – a region in the brain linked to emotion and feelings – quit smoking easily and immediately, according to a study in...
Read MoreGetting Out Of The Procrastination Cycle
Hmmm… Procrastination is such a hard habit to break completely. You know you want to switch into the Action stage of a project but as soon as you sit down to work, the slightest distraction will take you off the task in hand. I was so after a solution to stopping this and did a search. Up came this...
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